· We investigate the molecular mechanism of membrane fusion and transmitter release with specific focus on the steps leading to fusion pore formation.· We developed a time superresolution technique that beats the time resolution limit of photon statistics and frame duration and identified a rapid change in SNARE complex conformation specifically associated with fusion events.· Using molecular dynamics simulation we determined a fusion pore structure that has properties that are fully consistent with experimental data. This fusion pore structure reveals a proteo-lipidic fusion pore

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Genetic testing to determine whether you have an increased risk of Alzheimer's. This requires a quick cheek swab which is completed at the Center for Cognitive Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center at no cost to the participant.

If you’re the one who’s dedicated to your family, be the one dedicated to preventing Alzheimer’s. We may be able to prevent Alzheimer’s. But only with your help.

ApoE4 Alzheimer's Gene Screening

You know the importance of clinical trials.

Now you can take part in one that could help generations to come.

The Generation Program is investigating a treatment that may be able to prevent the onset of Alzheimer's.

We need volunteers like you to help us get to the finish line. If you’re 60-75 and have not been diagnosed with any memory impairment, this is your chance to join the fight against Alzheimer's.

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An Occupational Health nurse will be roaming VUH 3, 4N, 4S, 5N, and 5S from 6:00 to 10:00 pm to provide Hep B, MMR, TDAP, TB, and flu vaccines to Vanderbilt faculty and staff. Please call 831-4722 to page an OHC nurse to find where the cart is located at that time.

Jim Wallis is president and founder of Sojourners in Washington, DC. a non-profit faith-based organization, network, and movement whose mission statement calls for “putting faith into action for social justice.” He is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine and website which has a combined print and electronic media readership of more than a quarter million people with several million unique visitors to the website, sojo.net, each year.

Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, national preacher, social activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life. His latest book, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America was released in January 2016. Wallis has written eleven previous books, including The (Un)Common Good and the New York Times bestsellers God’s Politics and The Great Awakening. He is a frequent speaker in the United States and abroad, has written for major newspapers, does regular columns for Huffington Post and TIME.com, and appears frequently on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and NPR; on shows from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show to the O’Reilly Factor and Sunday shows like This Week and Meet the Press.

Wallis also teaches at Georgetown University and has taught at Harvard University. He served on President Obama’s first White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and as the chair of the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum.

Abstract:Cells are complex, dynamic systems capable of initiating internal biochemical programs and adjusting their behavior in response to microenvironmental signals and stressors. Under the general term “phenotypic plasticity,” this phenomenon underlies important biological processes such as stem cell differentiation and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions. In bacteria, isogenic cell populations are known to exploit plasticity by phenotypically diversifying to increase their chances of survival to catastrophic external challenges, a strategy known as “bet hedging.” Recent evidence suggests that cancer cells may employ a similar strategy to survive the initial onslaught of anticancer therapeutics. Understanding the complex biochemical networks that underlie signal propagation and cell fate decisions is thus critical for improving treatments of various human diseases, including cancer. Here, I describe the biochemical basis for phenotypic plasticity within the framework of “Waddington landscapes,” present evidence for its role in anticancer drug resistance in non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma populations treated with targeted drugs, and discuss initial work toward constructing a detailed computational model of the biochemical machinery underlying cellular responses to external perturbations.

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Flexner Discovery Lecture Series features the world's most eminent scientists who speak on the highest-impact research and policy issues in science and medicine today.

October 11, 2018: sponsored by the Department of Medicine

Presenter:Michael W. Young, Ph.D.

Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine, 2017

Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor of Cell Biology, Genetics and Genomics, and Neurosciences and Behavior

Homecoming and Reunion Weekend is an exciting time for our campus, particularly for alumni. As a part of the many activities sponsored by the BCC during Homecoming, the Legacy Pioneer Lecture is a very special event.

The BCC selects a distinguished alum as our guest speaker to share their experiences as a Vanderbilt student. This is a very important event, particularly for our undergraduate students. These talks by alums from the 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond reveal how Vanderbilt has changed for Black students while highlighting the fact that students today face some of the same challenges as our legacy pioneers.

Come help us celebrate Dr. Jeter’s 80th birthday before she embarks on her 440-mile bicycling journey along the Natchez Trace. For more information on her journey, please go to www.bibisbirthdaybikeride.com or visit the Bibi’s Birthday Bicycle Ride Facebook page.

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The Medical Center Staff Advisory Council (MCSAC) represents all staff members in the Vanderbilt Medical Center. MCSAC is an advisory group to the medical center administration for issues that are important to staff, such as policies, benefits and practices.

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An Occupational Health nurse will be roaming MCJCHV 7 ABC and 8 ABC from 6:00 to 10:00 pm to provide Hep B, MMR, TDAP, TB, and flu vaccines to Vanderbilt faculty and staff. Please call 831-4722 to page an OHC nurse to find where the cart is located at that time.

Health Plus wants to support you in having a healthy pregnancy by offeringBabies & You, a prenatal education program to encourage early and consistent prenatal care.The program is offered to Vanderbilt faculty/staff, spouses, or dependent children.

If you have further questions, please contact Lisa R. Connor, R.N. at 615-343-9623 or contact Health Plus.

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Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Stem cell dynamics in intestinal and biliary epithelia

Monday, October 22, 2018

4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

EBC conference room

10455 MRB IV

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Not sure which benefits are right for you and your family? Join us at the Benefits Open House, which is focused simply on helping you get the information you need to make the benefits decisions that are right for you - plus a few helpful extras!

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Boost your well-being by finding out the latest from the University's health, wellness, and retirement providers, as well as VU Public Safety

· Our focus is the development and utilization of methods to incorporate unnatural chemical groups into proteins· We have developed a chemical approach for the production of the large polypeptide chains that comprise protein molecules, enabling us to change the structure of a protein in ways impossible by natural means· Our goal is to introduce non-coded amino acids and other chemical groups into proteins to better understand the molecular basis of protein function

In coordination with International Open Access Week, and in partnership with the Digital Humanities Center and the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library, the Office of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications and the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries celebrate the positive impact of Fair Use on the Academy.

Two of the country’s most prominent copyright law librarians/lawyers will be on campus to explore the topic of Fair Use in teaching and research and raise awareness about author and user copyrights, while encouraging wider adoption of Fair Use across the academy. Lunch will be provided. Exact schedule below:

Solo Performance “Sonic Borders III”: October 26, 2018, at 6:00 pm at Turner Recital Hall in the Blair School of Music

Newly commissioned by Vanderbilt University, the process-oriented sound performance “Sonic ReActivation” on October 25 unearths the complex history of Nashville’s Public Square. Known for his work addressing contested spaces, Galindo’s new performance piece draws attention to the less known stories of Public Square highlighting those of Native and African Americans. Galindo’s interest in the deep and complicated history of the Americas drew him to Public Square and its many roles: in the founding of the city, as the former site of a slave market, its proximity to the Toll Bridge along the Trail of Tears, and as a site of political activism during the city’s Civil Rights history. The work culminates a three week collaboration with students and faculty from Vanderbilt University.

Galindo’s solo performance “Sonic Borders III” on October 26 is a sonic ritual featuring some instruments built with materials found around the Mexican-U.S. border fence that has been performed in museums and concert halls around the US and Europe. “In building his instruments, Galindo ignores the borders set by musical convention. He listens to found objects and, in effect, lets them speak as they will. He thus creates not only innovative musical textures but a political model for the treatment of those cast adrift by global unrest.” (Brian Froitcour, Art in America)

Both performances are free and open to the public. Post-Mexican composer and performance artist, Guillermo Galindo, is in residence at Vanderbilt for the month of October. Galindo is an experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist and visual media creator who redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition and the intersections between all art disciplines: politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality and social awareness. While in residence, Guillermo is working with students on a newly commissioned sound piece they will perform for the community in Public Square addressing its contested history on October 25.

Galindo’s artistic practice emerges from the crossroads between sound, sight and performance and includes everything from orchestral compositions, instrumental works and opera, to sculpture, visual arts, computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, film making, instrument building, three dimensional installation and live improvisation. His acoustic compositions includes major chamber and solo works, two symphonies commissioned by the UNAM (Mexico university symphony orchestra), the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and choir, and two operas.

Border Cantos, an award winning book published by Aperture Foundation and a traveling exhibit featuring a unique collaboration between Guillermo Galindo and American photographer Richard Misrach featuring Galindo’s sonic devices and musical scores made from detritus left behind by immigrants has been shown at the San Jose Museum of Art (2016), Amon Carter Museum, Texas (2016), Crystal Bridges Museum, Arkansas (2017) and Pace Gallery, New York (2017). Galindo's interactive string quartet Remote Control commissioned by the Kronos Quartet for the Fifty for the Future series premiered at the San Francisco Jazz Festival in April 2018.

Galindo’s residency at Vanderbilt is a collaboration between the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), the Department of Art, the Blair School of Music, and the Program in Comparative Media Analysis and Practice. Through the Visiting Resource Professor program, CLAS hosts distinguished scholars, artists, politicians, and writers for month-long residencies to participate in seminars with Vanderbilt students, and engage the community through public lectures, interactive performances, or creative projects.

In honor of Galindo’s presence on campus, Vanderbilt University will also hold a one-day symposium on October 26, 2018, “Border Elegies: Refugees, Migrants, and Contemporary Art and Literature.” Presenters will explore different artistic responses to the issue of migration and discuss the human rights implications of today’s flows of refugees. The event is open to the public. Click here for more information.

This long-standing seminar annually attracts 180+ physicians, nurses. and advanced practice nurses from Tennessee and surrounding states. Among the topics this year will be cardiac arrest in pregnancy and perimortem cesarean, managing multiple gestations, and many more. Register at www.VanderbiltOBHRS.com #OBHRS18

The George W. Holcomb, Jr. Lecture in Pediatric Surgery is presented by the Department of Pediatric Surgery in honor of George Holcomb, Clinical Professor of Surgery, Emeritus. This lectureship was established in honor of Dr. Holcomb's contributions to pediatric surgery in Nashville and is endowed through the generosity of his friends, Eleanor and Clark Akers.

The forum, which will run from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., also will feature discussions by 25 early-career Vanderbilt faculty members on topics ranging from rhythm in atypical language development to helminth vaccines and cutting edge allergy therapeutics.

“The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day addresses a crucial public safety and public health issue. According to the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6.2 million Americans misused controlled prescription drugs. The study shows that a majority of abused prescription drugs were obtained from family and friends, often from the home medicine cabinet. The DEA’s Take Back Day events provide an opportunity for Americans to prevent drug addiction and overdose deaths.”

Through the exceptional capabilities and caring spirit of its people, Vanderbilt will lead in improving the healthcare of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally. We will combine our transformative learning programs and compelling discoveries to provide distinctive personalized care.